The most asked career question in India
Every week, on r/developersIndia, r/IndianWorkplace, and a hundred WhatsApp groups, the same question gets asked over and over:
"I have X years experience. I got an offer of ₹Y LPA from [Company]. Is this fair?"
It's the most asked career question in India. And it's one of the hardest to answer alone.
Glassdoor gives you a range, but not a verdict. Levels.fyi has the data, but you have to read it yourself. ChatGPT will give you a confident answer that's often wrong about Indian comp because it's trained on US-heavy data. Your friends know their own salaries, not the market.
So you Google. You ask three people. You stare at Levels.fyi tabs at 1am. And you still don't know if the number is good — or what to say if HR pushes back.
We listened, and we built the tool.
What it does
Try the Offer Decoder →Three stages. Stop at any one.
Stage 1 — Is this offer fair? Tell us your role, years of experience, the company, and the offered amount. We compare it against that company's actual band for your role and experience in India, using public data from Levels.fyi, AmbitionBox, and Glassdoor. You get a verdict in 30 seconds: lowball, slightly low, fair, strong, or above market. Stage 2 — Is your hike strong? Add your current CTC. We tell you the hike percentage and how it compares to the Indian market median switch hike (~22%). We also check whether your current comp is fair where you are now. Sometimes people discover they're being underpaid today, not just being lowballed tomorrow. Stage 3 — What do you say to HR? Paste what HR said, or pick a common pattern (parity excuse, "too high," take-it-or-leave-it). We name the tactic, draft a 60-80 word script in Indian English referencing your specific numbers, and give you the walk-away line for if they don't move.Why we built it
Three reasons.
One — it's the most underserved decision moment in Indian careers. People agonize over offers for weeks, lose sleep, ask the same question to ten people, and still don't have clarity. A 30-second tool removes most of that anxiety, even if all it does is confirm what they suspected. Two — Indian compensation is genuinely confusing. The same offer is a lowball at Google and a stretch at TCS. Variable pay games, ESOP cliffs, "parity" excuses — the structure of an offer matters as much as the number. Generic tools miss this. We didn't want to. Three — the Reddit threads were unbearable. Read enough "is this fair?" posts and you realize half the people are taking offers they shouldn't, and the other half are walking away from offers they should take. Better information at the decision moment changes lives.What it doesn't do
It doesn't tell you whether to take the offer.
That's deliberate. The number being fair is one question. Whether the company is right for your next five years is a completely different question — and one no calculator can answer. That's the work of values, trade-offs, and what you actually want from your career.
If the tool tells you ₹58L at Google is fair and you walk in confident, great. If it tells you the same thing and you still feel uneasy, that's a signal — and probably the more important one. The number was never the real question.
Who it's for
Indian professionals across any industry — not just tech. Type your role as you'd say it ("Senior PM," "Key Account Manager," "Associate Consultant," "Engineering Manager," "L4 PM at Google") and the tool resolves it. Built for the audience that gets asked "is this fair?" by friends and doesn't have a good answer themselves.
No login. No tracking. We log only the offer details (no name, no email) to improve the tool. Email capture is opt-in at the end.
Try it
Decode your offer →If it's useful, share it with the friend who texted you "is this offer fair?" last week.